Town & Country Club, Kentish Town, London
5th June 1986
Sounds
21 June 1986
by JKez Owen
SCREAMING BLUE MESSIAHS / ZODIAC MINDWARP AND THE LOVE REACTION / SAY YES
Rock and roll rules, OK, and tonight's the night, if you play your cards right, to come on down for a triple dose of rock dexterity.
Say Yes are a powerful, American sounding quintet whose throbbing core emanates from their drums and whose energy is wasted on a slowly expanding crowd waiting to succumb to Zodiac Mindwarp And The Love Reaction.
Out of the misty mayhem shoot the loaded pouches of the Zodiacs. Horny monsters from Planet Porno who not only have neat bottoms, but can also play the meanest, wildest, goddam best music I've ever had the misfortune to come across. Boys stand enviously as girls throw knickers with phone numbers on them to Mr Warped Mind and then crawl up his leg, straining to reach the bag of marbles that dangles so tantalisingly out of reach.
"When you're digging me, I'm digging you." Us girls are digging deep.
After this, everything else can only be a comedown, can't it? Screaming Blue Messiahs are imageless, almost drab, with a sinister, ranting frontman. The music, though, |